So the Post does what nobody has been able to do – obtain deep sourcing inside the Department confirming what Adams and Coates have been saying for months. This is a devastating piece of work by the Washington Post. This is a rare moment where the old print media has returned to the higher standards of years past, and reported facts. A week from an election, it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Eric Holder.

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Ignore the Black Panther part, it's the racially biased law enforcement that is the scandal.

This was the money quote: “There are career people who feel strongly that it is not the voting section’s job to protect white voters,” the lawyer said. “The environment is that you better toe the line of traditional civil rights ideas or you better keep quiet about it, because you will not advance, you will not receive awards and you will be ostracized.”

I didn't see it here, but in other stories Coates, who is a liberal democrat career attorney (described in the article as:. A respected voting expert, Coates had been hired at Justice during the Clinton administration after a stint with the American Civil Liberties Union.

was on record saying that he was told in no uncertain terms that he could not ask applicants if they believed in color-blind application of the civil rights laws.

This reminds us that The Liberal Rights Laws are to protect white upper middleclass educated female elites. They do not apply to Black men named Juan. Liberal Government, thy name is favoritism. I also wonder if the white men will someday be given small homelands among the Government's North American Federation owned lands.

Agree with Drill SGT. The Panthers are small potatos. The bigger matter is the mindset that civil rights laws are believed by many within Justice to only be for favored minority groups, and as the only approved "victims" favored minority groups therefore cannot abrogate the civil rights of any other group. Even when one favored minority group preys on another (case of black thugs targeting illegal Latins for robbery) - Justice wants to stay out.

It is a scandal that started with the Panther idiots, but may finally get rid of that cancerous mindset at Justice and in academia that only certain groups deserve "equal protection by law".

That zip code is 2/3 African-American, so which race is being intimidated? The white girl talking on her cell doesn't seem too disturbed. A Quaker charity operates Guild House West to house old poor people -- are any seniors intimidated? But let's go to the article:

That morning, the men stood a few feet apart on a narrow sidewalk in front of the polling place, forcing voters to walk between them.

Some in the neighborhood didn't see a problem. James "Jimmy" Whitmire, 74, who voted in the Guild House recreation room, said he saw nothing "that was destructive . . . nothing offensive." Three other residents who voted that day said in interviews that they agreed. ...Calls poured into the Philadelphia district attorney's office reporting voter intimidation at Guild House. But staff members realized they were from cable news viewers as far away as Florida.

No call had come from a registered voter in Philadelphia. ...

Others from the Republican Party showed up that day, including Stephen Morse, a videographer. Morse pulled out a video camera and focused on Heath.

Less than 15 minutes later, Philadelphia police arrived. A one-page police report says officers allowed Jackson to stay because he was a poll watcher but asked Heath to leave.

"That's why you're going to be ruled by a black man, now!" Heath shouted as he departed, according to witnesses. They said he called Obama a "tool of the white man."

Morse raced back to the GOP headquarters. "This footage is golden," he recalled thinking.

None of the locals complained, only cable news viewers. Can you say "Fox News Channel." "This footage is golden" thinks Republican Party operative.

When a winger is accusing you of something, you can bet the house they're already doing it. You wouldn't know that if you just read this blog though. Like Kirk's planned "voter integrity squads" in IL, or the teahadis harassing voters in TX last week. Dick Armey thinks that there is already voter fraud going on in the "inner city", because he thinks blacks voting is fraudulent.

Libtard: When a Libtard is accusing you of something, you can bet the house they're already doing it.

/fixed

You were projecting again. You don't get to steal our insight into your own tactics. You don't get to revise history:

Obama told he people to "get in our face" and "punch back twice as hard". DNC Media spread the lie that its was the Tea Party who was violent. And SEUI Thugs started beating down black conservative men. MoveOn Goons biting off fingers of counter-protestors.

And Black Panther Racists squated in front of polls with batons, squawking about killing white babies.

And were given a pass.

Because prosecuting them would have had a "chilling effect" on the Democratic GOTV effort and its Brownshirt Gangs.

"A November 8, 2006, Austin American-Statesman article reported (from the Nexis database): "In Arizona, Roy Warden, an anti-immigration activist with the Minutemen, and a handful of supporters staked out a Tucson precinct and questioned Hispanic voters at the polls to determine whether they spoke English." The article continued: "Armed with a 9mm Glock automatic strapped to his side, Warden said he planned to photograph Hispanic voters entering polls in an effort to identify illegal immigrants and felons."

The DrillSgt and Cedarford are right. The New Panther thing is not that big a deal as elections go in this country; it is the Justice Dept. response and attitude that is truly mindboggling, and, I think, dangerous for respect for "the rule of law."

FLS,How do you know that the intimidation, if any, was not directed at the Black voters to remind them to vote as expected of them?

EDH said... "If the Republicans take the House, there will be hearings.

It seems increasingly likely that the Democrats will look to draft Hillary in 2012, especially if the economy continues to sputter."

=================Hillary is screwed because 34% of Dem Primary voters are black, and another 30% describe themselves as "liberal".Even now, blacks approve of Obama by 91%. Tribal loyalty. If Obama was caught on all fours, naked, bent over a similarly naked young boy, and facing Mecca - Obama's approval numbers with blacks might plummet to 85%.Besides blacks, liberals are the only other key demo favoring The One, by 53-55%.

Isn't there some phrase along the lines of, "Equal Justice Under Law", on a lot of Federal courthouses?

I guess that was only back before we became a nation of cowards.

garage mahal said...

Obama is green-lighting his goons for election day.

When a winger is accusing you of something, you can bet the house they're already doing it. You wouldn't know that if you just read this blog though. Like Kirk's planned "voter integrity squads" in IL, or the teahadis harassing voters in TX last week. Dick Armey thinks that there is already voter fraud going on in the "inner city", because he thinks blacks voting is fraudulent

Well, since I'm sure ACORN doesn't ring a bell, we can only note projection isn't solely the province of opera divas and no, Armey just said those are historically the districts where there are often more votes than voters. Very active graveyards, sort of like the widow asked about delivering a son a year after her husband died replying, "You can't keep a good man down".

Please, if you were better actors, you'd be in Hollywood with Mel Gibson and Charlton Heston and your other buddies.

I'm trying to figure out which performance was more ridiculous and less credible: The pretend faux-trage that permeates here over phony accusations of intimidation or the guy playing dress-up as a Black Panther.

Well, since I'm sure ACORN doesn't ring a bell, we can only note projection isn't solely the province of opera divas and no, Armey just said those are historically the districts where there are often more votes than voters.

ACORN's biggest crime is registering black voters. Which the right considers voter fraud.

it's worth reposting a Ritmo comment from one earlier last week, displaying what he's up to at Althouse, and why he comments here:

Ritmo Brasileiro said: "It's good to know that the stupidest threads are just ripe for the threadjacking. I'll be sure to leave a trail of turds on every one of the brain droppings here that suit my fancy. Getting you shit-eaters to complain about the taste after opening your mouths wide and saying "Ahhhh..." to every bad idea under the sun is very satisfying, I must admit."- 10/16/10 10:28 AM

So obviously, Ritmo got stomped on today and needs attention. String him along as you like, just remember we're not running a free mental clinic here.

Ritmo Brasileiro said: "It's good to know that the stupidest threads are just ripe for the threadjacking. I'll be sure to leave a trail of turds on every one of the brain droppings here that suit my fancy. Getting you shit-eaters to complain about the taste after opening your mouths wide and saying "Ahhhh..." to every bad idea under the sun is very satisfying, I must admit."- 10/16/10 10:28 AM

Fen's just pissed because his free speech has been abridged by the asylum warden. When she deletes his pitiful comments, he feels like he's been wrapped in the social networking equivalent of a straight jacket.

"That zip code is 2/3 African-American, so which race is being intimidated? The white girl talking on her cell doesn't seem too disturbed. A Quaker charity operates Guild House West to house old poor people -- are any seniors intimidated? But let's go to the article:"

Come ON, dude. Why are you trying so hard to be so obtuse. Are you seriously going to reach into the grab-bag of cheap apologias? You don't think it's fucked up and illegal on its face to show up to a polling location with a billyclub, talking about getting the "crackers" out of power? WTF, dude, please come back to sanity.

You really think that it's just no harm, no foul, because you can't dig up people who will admit that they were intimidated by neighborhood thugs? Jesus, by that measure you may as well just not investigate any crimes in inner cities, because, amazingly, no one comes forward to report crimes.

It's even more pathetic that you acknowledge the district is 2/3 black. Who was intimidated? Gee, maybe the 1/3 non-blacks and also blacks who are afraid of thugs with billyclubs.

What's next, are you going to justify campaigning at polling places? "Heck, no one complained and it's 2/3 Democrat anyway!" What about ballot-stuffing? "Hey, no one complained and it would hae gone Democrat anyway!"

Fucking pathetic dude. I can't believe you can't take off the ideological blinders for just one second to acknowledge that it's fucked up, illegal, and anti-democratic to show up at a polling place while brandishing a weapon.

You know damn well that a huge portion of election law is dedicated to making it easy and non-threatening to vote. This is why even police are normally told to stay away from polling places unless called. But guys in berets with billyclubs making threatening statements to voters? Oh, right, all good in your book.

Well, since I'm sure ACORN doesn't ring a bell, we can only note projection isn't solely the province of opera divas and no, Armey just said those are historically the districts where there are often more votes than voters.

ACORN's biggest crime is registering black voters. Which the right considers voter fraud.

Jesus, can we get some better liberals in here? Seriously, guys, you really fucking suck at this. Between gm's "half a step behind but thinks he's won the game" attitude and FLS's mindboggling ignorance of anything relating to the law (seriously dude, did you drop out after 1L year? You don't have to be embarrassed about it), I'm just wondering why Althouse can't get any decent liberal commenters in here.

“The environment is that you better toe the line of traditional civil rights ideas or you better keep quiet about it, because you will not advance, you will not receive awards and you will be ostracized.”

Democrats control all the offices of our government. They hold all of the decision-making power ... not just the political offices. But deep down where all the government decisions take place.

Their message is simple: If you want to keep your job you'll keep your fucking mouth shut about their institutionalized and official racism.

You will not express your fears ... or you are fired. They can destroy you. They will destroy you.

Juan Williams was not the first and he won't be the last.

That's why, then the Tea Party takes over and a Republican is once again in the White House, it is important that the new Cabinet officials engage in a wholesale firing of all of the existing government employees from every position of any influence within our government. Do it legally, of course. Give them all plenty of rope. Then hang them. Late for work? Fired. Insubordinate? Fired.

It doesn't matter if they fight to get their jobs back ... make them fight. Many won't. A few might get to keep their jobs ... that's OK. Most will move on or be bankrupted by the fight.

End civil service. End tenure. Eliminate employment contracts. Eliminate government bonuses. Halve salaries. End pensions. Force them to buy health insurance for themselves.

Either the law applies equally to everyone, or we have no law at all. Just close the law schools, stop giving bar exams, shut down the superfluous law firms (i.e., all of them). Maybe the Professor can have Meade train her in gardening.

Yes, but they've been forced to cover the issue ... when their preference would have been for it to be swept completely under the rug. Remember, this event occurred two years ago and they're only now covering the story.

You see, if this story never makes it into the newspaper, then it never happened. Black militant Muslim extremist violence at our polling places would then be free to flourish covered up by the nation's elite newspapers.

The Washington Post can put its finger into the wind, however. It knows what is about to happen: a million video cameras all programmed to upload to YouTube are about to descend on America's voting precincts where Democrats are committing extreme acts of fraud and violence to make Americans too afraid to vote against them.

If the locale was 2/3rds white, 1/3rd black, with guys in KKK outfits parading in front of the polling place waving weapons and hurling racial slurs, you can be sure a lack of blacks registered to vote would be cited as proof that blacks had been successfully intimidated, the Kluckers at the polls just being the visible tip of the intimidation effort, and a lack of complaints as proof of a climate of fear that stopped people from daring to speak out.

Reverse the races, and it's proof there wasn't anybody to intimidate, so no crimes were committed.

So they admit they have a policy of racial discrimination, but believe they are justified, just like all the racists before them. How long do you have to be discriminated against to get the "historically oppressed" label? It would then follow that your oppressors would become historically racist assholes. Then, reparations!